SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine bejeweled a plate of glass

a plate of glass

almost like a piece of tramp art

I'm not especially interested I'm relics of war for their historic value

This ball just appeals to me as a cheerful thing

and think perhaps they were siblings

SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine bejeweled a plate of glassA very homemade old tool, and beautifully so. An old tag from the now deceased dealer I purchased this from described it as an antique mast scorer from Maine. And indeed, the iron spikes extending at regular intervals from the rotating wooden wheels at either end are quite sharp enough to leave their mark. From what I understand, this would have been using for marking the mast s of a sailboat to indicate specific sail positions or settings for optimal